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Smoke and Mirrors — Remains of the Day
Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla
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Every time I see a clip from this show I can't believe it existed. A show recounting real events and imagining up a guy who was bravely completely correct about them in real time, as if he had some sort of moral crystal ball under the newsman desk... Aaron Sorkin your mind
caitie delaneyx.comthe enigma she presents in the historical record. Her intellect is clear in every surviving word she ever wrote or spoke. Infinitely less clear is the emotional burden or subtext of what she said, hidden as it always was behind the carapace of a carefully constructed public self. But this unreadability is not a trick of the historical light:
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